Slice of Life

Violence isn’t funny, but I just can’t help it: I love stories about women with knives.

Woman Arrested in Bremerton Knife Incident
A woman was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon Wednesday for allegedly threatening her boyfriend with a knife. The 55-year-old man said he awoke at his Country Lane apartment to find the 34-year-old woman holding a butcher knife to his neck. The man, who said he’s in poor health and has one year to live, said the girlfriend was upset because she thinks he’s having an affair with his caregiver. He denied that and said his medical problems prevent it.

Woman displays knife during fight
A Fremont woman was arrested early this morning after displaying a knife during a family argument, Fremont Police reported. Brooke Mulford, 27, was charged with disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace, Class III misdemeanors. Lt. Jeff Elliott said officers were dispatched at 2:15 a.m. to a home in the 800 block of W. Tenth Street where Mulford was accused of displaying a knife while fighting with family members. When officers arrived, she already had been disarmed.

Altercation ends in mother’s arrest
A Monroe woman was arrested Monday night after she allegedly tried to stab her daughter with a knife after a verbal altercation. Linda Bowman, 52, of 1612 S. First St., was taken to Richwood Correctional Center, where she allegedly refused to give her name. After the officer searched her, he found a crack pipe in a cigarette carton, according to the arrest affidavit.

Yonkers woman, 80, accused of making threats with knife
An 80-year-old Yonkers woman is facing menacing and weapons charges after she was accused of threatening another tenant in her Warburton Avenue apartment building with a kitchen knife, police said.
Ann Pelligilini of 650 Warburton Ave. is charged with menacing and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, both misdemeanors.